Women's History Month

Nearly three decades ago, New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion was nominated for a Golden Globe as Best Director for The Piano. This year, she returned to win the Golden Globe for Best Director for her 1920s frontier story The Power of the Dog, which won The Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Drama.

Having been an actress all her life, Icelandic Anita Briem was becoming desperate. There were no stories out there about her situation.

Alice Guy, the very first woman filmmaker in the history of cinema, was born in Paris on July 1, 1873, to a Chilean father and a French mother. After the death of her father in 1891, she trained as a typist and stenographer to help support her widowed mother and four siblings.

During the lead-up to the revelatory song “I’m the Greatest Star,” in the 1968 film Funny Girl, Fanny Brice tries to explain her uniqueness. “I’m a bagel on a plate of onion rolls.